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As for Relation, manifestly an offshoot, how can it be
included among primaries? Relation is of thing ranged against
thing; it is not self-pivoted, but looks outward.
Place and Date are still more remote from Being. Place denotes
the presence of one entity within another, so that it involves a
duality; but a genus must be a unity, not a composite. Besides,
Place does not exist in the higher sphere, and the present
discussion is concerned with the realm of True Being.
Whether time is There, remains to be considered. Apparently it
has less claim than even Place. If it is a measurement, and that
a measurement of Motion, we have two entities; the whole is a
composite and posterior to Motion; therefore it is not on an
equal footing with Motion in our classification.
Action and Passivity presuppose Motion; if, then, they exist in
the higher sphere, they each involve a duality; neither is a
simplex.
Possession is a duality, while Situation, as signifying one thing
situated in another, is a threefold conception.
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